Bypass. The Story Of A Road

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Picador/Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 313 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear and age marks to the inside pages present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Flabby, unfit and forty, Michael McGirr decided to ride a pushbike from one end of the Hume Highway to the other. For most of his life, he had regarded the Hume as an obstacle to negotiate as quickly as possible. But Michael was discovering that middle age takes longer to do things. Theres a good side to this: on a slow ride to Melbourne, Michael was overtaken by a strange cast of fellow travellers. He also had a chance to ponder the history of Australias major thoroughfare, a road which winds through the story of bushrangers and bus drivers, politicians and poets, truckies and refugees. The Hume is neither our legendary coastline, nor the mysterious outback. It is the road most travelled, a place so common that few stop to hear the stories it carries. In McGirrs hands, however, the road is an occasion for both insight and comedy And maybe even a fine romance.

ISBN: 9780330364935